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Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Eclipsing Binary V441 Lac, Daimei Wang, Liyun Zhang, Xianming Han, Franz Agerer, Qingfeng Pi, Shuai Wang
Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Eclipsing Binary V441 Lac, Daimei Wang, Liyun Zhang, Xianming Han, Franz Agerer, Qingfeng Pi, Shuai Wang
Xianming Han
We present the first multi-color VRI CCD light curves of a short-period eclipsing binary star v441 Lac in this paper. We obtained our light curves on Oct. 4 and 8, 2013 at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, China. We updated the ephemeris of V441 Lac based on three new minima derived by our new observational data together with previously available light curve minima. By fitting the O−C (observed minus calculated) values of the minima, we found that the orbital period of V441 Lac exhibits an increasing trend of Ṗ=5.67(0.35)×10^-7 days/year, which might be explained by mass transfer from the …
The First Multi-Color Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary Gk Aqr, Liyun Zhang, Qingfeng Pi, Xianming Han, Tongan Li, Xiliang Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Daimei Wang, Shuai Wang
The First Multi-Color Photometric Study Of The Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary Gk Aqr, Liyun Zhang, Qingfeng Pi, Xianming Han, Tongan Li, Xiliang Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Daimei Wang, Shuai Wang
Xianming Han
We made the first VRI CCD light curves of the short-period contact eclipsing binary GK Aqr, which was observed on October 5 and 8, 2013 at Xinglong station of National Astronomical Observatories, China. The ephemeris of GK Aqr was calculated based on our two newly obtained minima and the minima that other observers obtained previously. We discovered that the orbital period of GK Aqr exhibits an increasing trend of Ṗ=2.8(0.1)×10^-7 days/year by means of fitting the O-C values of the minima. This phenomenon might be explained by mass transfer from the primary (less massive) component to the secondary (more massive) …
Dr. Linda French: Don’T Limit Yourself (Interview With Kelsi Singer), Linda French
Dr. Linda French: Don’T Limit Yourself (Interview With Kelsi Singer), Linda French
Linda French
Dr. Linda French is Professor of Physics and past Chair of the Physics Department at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she has been a professor since 2002. She received her A.B. in astronomy from Indiana University and a Ph. D. in planetary astronomy from Cornell University. Her scientific research, funded by the National Science Foundation, concerns the study of the shapes and surfaces of asteroids and comets. She is a frequent guest observer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona and at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile, and is often accompanied by students on these research trips.